Lisa Schuyler
Code Wrangler - Content Safety at Automattic
Dawson City, Yukon, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolLisa Schuyler is a seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience building and maintaining web systems, currently working as a Code Wrangler in Content Safety at Automattic. She has progressed through multiple roles at Automattic—from Happiness Engineer to Software Engineer—demonstrating a rare combination of customer-facing empathy and deep backend debugging skills. Her open-source contributions include backend fixes and performance improvements to Automattic’s popular Co-Authors Plus WordPress plugin, showing attention to SQL query correctness and editor compatibility. Based in Dawson City, Yukon, she brings perspective from both rural Canada and global distributed teams, which informs pragmatic, resilient solutions. With a formal background in forestry and advanced GIS studies, she pairs systems thinking from environmental data work with robust web development practices. Colleagues rely on her for stabilizing complex integrations and quietly resolving thorny production issues.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
HBScF, Forestry, HBScF, Forestry at Lakehead UniversityAdvanced GIS in Forestry, Advanced GIS in Forestry at University of New Brunswick
Github Skills (6)
plugin-development10
wordpress10
regular-expression10
php10
wordpress-plugin10
sql9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/Co-Authors-Plus
Aug 2021 - Jun 2022
Multiple bylines and Guest Authors for WordPress
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 9 reviews, 24 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Lisa primarily contributed to the backend of the WordPress plugin, focusing on resolving SQL errors and improving query performance. They fixed issues related to author page queries by adjusting `preg_replace` limits and addressing duplicate query parameters. The user also made changes related to the block editor compatibility and fixed an error related to undefined function calls. These changes are vital for ensuring the plugin's stability and correct functionality within the WordPress environment.
authorswordpresswordpress-pluginguestwpvip-plugin
lschuyler/canadianize
Aug 2021 - Jan 2025
A WordPress plugin that generates posts with random Canadian content. Great for test sites.
Contributions:5 PRs, 57 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 6 months
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